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Mike this will be the first time for me , a few people I have known did do it and they say it works great . For the air born particles .

I have a large heavy roll of the plastic for covering the wall and and stuff . It pulls dust when I unwrap it to hang up .


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Originally Posted by bluestang67

Mike this will be the first time for me , a few people I have known did do it and they say it works great . For the air born particles .
I have a large heavy roll of the plastic for covering the wall and and stuff . It pulls dust when I unwrap it to hang up .

It sounds like it should work.. I wonder how long it (the plastic) holds the charge? When I first read your post about using the plastic bags I started thinking about those ionizing fans that are meant to atract dust, pollen etc.. It seems like a great idea for us DIY painters.
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Wet paint might stick to the plates on the ionizer ruining them. Garbage gags are a great idea, plus you can still use them when your done for their original purpose

Originally Posted by stovens

Wet paint might stick to the plates on the ionizer ruining them. Garbage gags are a great idea, plus you can still use them when your done for their original purpose

I was thinking you would run it before painting. Capture the dust in the room and then paint was my thinking.

My down draft design will remove the room dirt , the bags are snatching those little squiggly lines we see floating .

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Originally Posted by 34_40

I was thinking you would run it before painting. Capture the dust in the room and then paint was my thinking.

My mistake. Kept envisioning that commercial where they pull out the element and it's coated with nasty black stuff! All I could think was yikes now it will be a pretty blue, but won't ever work again. Running ahead of time seems like extra insurance for a clean finish! Great Idea! With the filth in my garage I need a dozen of them running a full week!

Originally Posted by stovens

My mistake. Kept envisioning that commercial where they pull out the element and it's coated with nasty black stuff! All I could think was yikes now it will be a pretty blue, but won't ever work again. Running ahead of time seems like extra insurance for a clean finish! Great Idea! With the filth in my garage I need a dozen of them running a full week!

That's exactly what I was thinking.. a cheap insurance policy.. I'm not sure where it all comes from but my shop always has dust floating around... But if I ran a unit to collect the dust from the air, it may help and certainly wouldn't hurt!!

Another method of helping to control stuff getting in that fresh paint that most people forget is to have a ground strap on the car to a good earth ground when you're doing the body work and painting..... There's a lot of static electricity built up in all that sheet metal when you're grinding, cutting, and sanding!

Same holds true for fiberglass cars! Maybe twice the problem?? It's amazing how much "attraction" builds up on the body!!

Dave great idea on the ground strap , just so happens the house service is in the garage 10 feet away .

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That ground strap is a good idea. I never really gave it any thought before.

Dave is a wealth of knowledge! All good stuff before my first attempt at this!

Hows it coming, Bobby? Im anxious to see Bluestang's blue 'Stang!

Bobby, using the plastic may work fine for you but I'll offer a caution passed on to me by my paint supplier. I told him that I had made a wall from 10mil clear plastic that I could roll down into place, blocking off a section of the barn as a "paint booth". He told me that I should take the pressure washer and wash down the inside of the walls, roof & floor as good as I could get it, and the last thing before getting ready to spray was to use a pump up garden sprayer with a gallon of water and a cup or two of denatured alcohol to break the static charge on the plastic. According to him the plastic indeed attracts dust & airborne particles, but if you brush against it, a slight breeze shakes it, or your spray pattern "disturbs" the plastic it will "release", and the fresh paint will then "attract". Dave's suggestion of a solid ground for the car is a great idea!

If I get the time, I'm going to paint my bed on my Longhorn, and I might just try the spraying the plastic trick. But around here, I don't know it the water will hang there very long with all this humidity. I guess I may not need much water on it then. LOL